Anonymous Takes Down Boeing Website

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Anonymous is taking responsibility for launching a coordinated
cyberattack on Boeing's website, a high-profile takedown that's
part of the hacking collective's campaign against what it
believes is a stifling piece of federal legislation.

Anonymous announced "Tango Down boeing.com by #Anonymous for
#OpDefense" on its YourAnonNews Twitter feed at about 3:45
p.m. EDT Tuesday (April 10). Boeing's website was down for
most of the following two hours, returning at about 5:40 p.m.
ET, but was having trouble again Wednesday morning (April 11).

Boeing did not return a call from SecurityNewsDaily seeking
comment.

Operation Defense, or #OpDefense as mentioned on Twitter, stems
from Anonymous' opposition to the proposed Cyber Intelligence
Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a bill that would enable
private companies and the government to more easily share
cybersecurity information.

Boeing, according to the U.S. House of Representatives, is one of
nearly 30 private companies that have written letters in
support of CISPA. Other vocal supporters include AT&T,
Facebook, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Lockheed Martin.

In a YouTube video posted by
TheAnonMessage April 7, the hackers made their anti-CISPA
stance clear.

"CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of
2011, and those who have crafted this bill have now become sworn
enemies of Anonymous," the narrator says. "We will unleash the
worst pain on those who threaten our existence. You will neither
eat, nor sleep, without hearing our voices through your walls.
Your actions will be monitored ... We will march through the
streets, we will destroy your reign of terror on our domain, you
will cease to exist. This is not a threat, this is a promise."

Two other letter-writing supporters of CISPA, USTelecom and
TechAmerica, were hit by denial-of-service attacks launched by
Anonymous on Sunday and Monday (April 8 and 9), Bloomberg News reported. Both were
back online later.

There were reports that the sites of the White
House and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce had also been knocked
offline in the past few days, but both were up Tuesday
afternoon.

Anonymous on Tuesday also started
#OpBoycottNetflix, urging its followers to cancel their
Netflix subscriptions for what the hackers erroneously thought
was Netflix's support of CISPA.